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Famous People with ADD/ADHD

You're in Good Company!

By Keath Low, About.com

Updated: November 19, 2007

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Below is a list of famous people speculated of having ADHD.

Check out these links, Successful People with Learning Disabilities and/or ADHD and Famous People with ADHD/LD , for additional lists.

Architect

  • Frank Lloyd Wright

Artists

  • Salvador Dali
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Vincent Van Gogh

Athletes

  • Terry Bradshaw
  • Pete Rose
  • Nolan Ryan
  • Michael Jordan
  • Jason Kidd

Authors

  • Charlotte and Emily Bronte
  • Samuel Clemens
  • Emily Dickenson
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Robert Frost
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Tennessee Williams
  • Virginia Woolf
  • William Butler Yeats

Composer

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders

  • Andrew Carnegie
  • Malcolm Forbes
  • Henry Ford
  • Bill Gates
  • David Neeleman
  • Paul Orfalea
  • Ted Turner

Explorers

  • Christopher Columbus
  • Lewis and Clark

Entertainers

  • Ann Bancroft
  • Jim Carrey
  • Steve McQueen
  • Jack Nicholson
  • Ty Pennington
  • Elvis Presley
  • Evil and Robbie Knievel
  • Sylvester Stallone
  • Robin Williams
  • Wright Brothers

Inventors

  • Alexander Graham Bell
  • Thomas Edison
  • Benjamin Franklin

Photographer

  • Ansel Adams

Physicist

  • Albert Einstein

Political Figures

  • James Carville
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Abraham Lincoln

Sources:

Kitty Petty ADD/LD Institute. Famous People with ADHD/LD. 2001.

Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, Famous People with Dyslexia and other Learning Disabilities and/or AD/HD. SchwabLearning.org, 2001.

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